The Latest Model Behavior on Social Media

British model Jordan and Canadian model Liskula Cohen are taking on Facebook and Google respectively in two cases that highlight modern challenges with social media – although only one of the models seems to have a poking chance. Jordan’s Facebook group was controversially removed for violating the terms of service, since it [...]

Digital Hot List: Google, Facebook and iPhone Lead Our Digital World

The annual AdweekMedia Web Site Hot List has emerged, so where do your favorite (and sometimes productivity reducing) online destinations and devices rank? It’s no surprise that Google lands at the top spot, followed by Facebook (you might be one of the 100 million active users) and the bronze medalist (with the Midas touch) [...]

The Econoclast10: Influential Online Celeb List Missing a Candidate

contentNext recently identified the top 10 most influential and innovative online celebrities, calling these much-followed folks the EconCeleb Econoclast10.

Martha Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey and Will Ferrell make the list, but one person is noticeably absent even though he’s probably been on the most magazine covers this year. He has more than [...]

Hey Bebo! You’ve Got Mail!

Dear Bebo parents Michael and Xochi Birch,
Please make sure you’re sitting down before you read this. In recognition of your enduring love in raising Bebo to be a popular child in a talented class filled with MySpace and Facebook, we cordially extend an offer of $850 million to add Bebo to the Time Warner [...]

Obama in 30 Seconds; Yes We Can Create a Commercial

One of my favorite Super Bowl commercials in recent years was in 2007 when Frito-Lay asked the chip-loving public to create an ad for Dorito’s. The winning commercial featured a guy’s clumsy encounter with a girl with the words “spicy, cheesy, crunchy and smooth” (also a description for this blog) dipped throughout the 30 seconds.

So [...]

A Pirate’s Life for Me: Set Sail on The Digital Deep

Welcome to The Digital Deep. This is the first of hopefully many musings on the digital world that influences and inspires us each day. Today, appropriately, is also day one of McGraw-Hill’s Media Summit in New York where Disney CEO Bob Iger proudly proclaimed his social equity by revealing that he has two friends on [...]